On March 13, 2013, Xu Zheng and the crew of the film crew, led by Thai Ambassador to China Qiu Weiwen, met with Prime Minister Yingluck Yingluck at the Prime Minister's Office of Thailand. Prime Minister Yingluck Yingluck thanked all the staff of the film for a good promotion for Thailand's tourism industry, and the tourist attractions that appeared in the film also became famous in China because of this film.
"Thailand" has 50 jokes and a box office of 1.2 billion, and each joke is worth about 25 million. It is Xu Zheng's film directorial debut. He served as the producer, screenwriter, director, and starring in this film. In addition, it also includes the production of the narration and dubbing of the movie trailer.
Xu Lang, a researcher dedicated to the development of new energy, is also a shrewd businessman with a conscience. In order to prevent his scientific research achievements from being sold, he went to Thailand to find a major shareholder with decision-making power. On the way, they met Wang Baobao, the best embarrassed person. The two rolled on the hillside together, were bitten by snakes, drowned and drifted, and were exposed to the sun. In the countless ordeals, the two also developed a touching friendship.
Nicknamed Baby, with blond hair, carrying a hedgehog backpack and holding a cactus in his hand, he is the owner of a scallion pancake stall with a monthly income of 20,000 yuan. The purpose of the trip to Thailand is to plant a "healthy tree" for the sick mother, and there are many troubles along the way with Xu Lang.
Xu Lang's college classmate and company colleague Gao Bo wanted to sell the oil bar invented by Xu Lang to the French at one time, but Xu Lang resolutely opposed it. In the play, he is dressed in "black spy", with black clothes, black pants, and black-rimmed glasses, always with a contemptuous expression on his face.
The biggest laughing device in "Thailand" is the characters, whose unexpected lines and reactions are hilarious. Road chases, jungle fights, and duel with Muay Thai masters, these action elements add a lot of visual pleasure as an adjustment and supplement to the relatively static two-person dialogue. Different from other comedy films, the jokes in "Tai 囧" all appear in the form of series, such as the cactus series, the shemale series, and the scallion pancake series. These jokes are not only pure comedy elements, but also promote the development of the plot. power. The theme of the film is actually very traditional, how "heavy profit" is infected and transformed by "heavy affection", allowing a low-end character to subtly transform a high-end character through his own thoughts and language.
It is just a normal comedy, it does not bear the heavy burden of family and country feelings, nor does it have the ambition to establish a school. It just abandons the tricks of spoofing, bids farewell to the madness of nothingness, and makes the comedy return to the old way of "talking people's words and doing people's affairs" come up.
"Thailand" has completed a post-colonial counterattack. Chinese tourists have become powerful foreign intruders. Thais are completely outside the story in the film. They are either dull passers-by or fierce gangsters. Or simple villagers - this is almost in line with the post-colonial expression we criticize, except that it is no longer Western-centrism here, but a kind of "China-centrism".
The point is to allow the audience to laugh wildly, but the tears must be well controlled in the warm part.
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